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A Conspiracy of Faith

Jussi Adler-Olsen · 504 pages

Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.

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Dregs

Jorn Lier Horst · 310 pages

Chief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature.He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world.Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, c

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The Ice Child

Camilla Lackberg

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Reykjavík Nights: Murder in Reykjavík

Arnaldur Indridason · 320 pages

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The Hypnotist

Lars Kepler · 520 pages

Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness—the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more

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The Snowman

Jo Nesbo · 550 pages

"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--

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The Killing

David Hewson · 400 pages

Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when 19-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nanna's family struggles

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The Silence of the Sea

Yrsa Sigurdardottir · 372 pages

"A luxury yacht crashes into a Reykjavik pier. But the boat is empty; no one is on board. What has happened to the crew? And what has happened to the family who were very much present when the yacht left Lisbon? What should Thora Gudmundsdottir, the series sleuth, make of the rumors that the vessel was cursed? She is spooked even more when she boards the yacht and thinks she sees one of the missin

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The Caller

Karin Fossum · 276 pages

One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram in the garden. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. The distraught parents rush to the hospital where they discover that she is unharmed - the blood isn't hers. Inspector Sejer is called in and spends the evening trying to comprehend why anyone would car

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Lifetime

Liza Marklund · 462 pages

"David Lindholm is found naked on his bed with bullets through his head and stomach. All the homicidal evidence points in the direction of his wife Julia. Julia, who is suffering from shock and trauma, rambles on about a woman who she claims entered the house, killed her husband, and ran off with her son. When journalist Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the case, she must work against the clock to c

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Missing in Malmö

Torquil MacLeod · 328 pages

"When a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmö, Inspector Anita Sundström doesn't want to get entangled in a simple missing person's case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared. But when the mysteries take a sinister turn, Sundström finds herself inextricably involved in both baffling affairs, one o

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The Hand That Trembles

Kjell Eriksson, Ebba Segerberg · 310 pages

Sven-Arne Persson suddenly walks out of a business meeting and disappears. Inspector Ann Lindell is investigating the discovery of a dismembered foot washed up on the beach. Berglunds is delving into a cold case. What connects the three?

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Unseen

Mari Jungstedt · 368 pages

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Where Roses Never Die

Gunnar Staalesen · 260 pages

Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her family and community is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Almost 25 years later, Mette's mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig, he uncovers an intricate web of secrets.

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The fifth season

Mons Kallentoft · 522 pages

"It's early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily mutliated body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of torture are all too visible. Inspector Malin Fors immediately draws parallels between this case and that of Maria Murvall, the young woman who was found raped and brutally beaten in the forest several years ago. Maria has been living as a mute

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Woman with Birthmark

Hakan Nesser · 335 pages

Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and murder.

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The Girl with Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson · 678 pages

Berisi cerita pengungkapan pembunuh Harriet Vanger, putri salah satu keluarga paling berpengaruh di Swedia, yang hilang 40 tahun yang lalu ?.

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg/ Vance Larsson (Simon (NRT)) · 656 pages

It?s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden ... and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It?s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet?s disappearance ... and about Lisbeth S

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Frozen Tracks

Ake Edwardson

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Time Heals No Wounds

Hendrik Falkenberg · 350 pages

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The Troubled Man

Henning Mankell · 496 pages

"Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his home in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for involving himself in the case as Hakan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months e

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The Man Who Wasn't There

Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt · 448 pages

**On the side of a mountain in Sweden, six bodies have been found. Skeletons, more precisely. These bodies were buried a long time ago.** The Criminal Investigation Department has been called in to investigate, and psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman is involved. The call-up. seemed like the perfect opportunity to escape his ex-girlfriend and spend some more time with Vanja; to try and build

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